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Paulina Navarrete Medina

Facultad de Derecho - Universidad de Valparaíso - Chile

Este artículo examina el concepto y las características definitorias de la Inteligencia Artificial, así como el requisito de causalidad en el derecho de la responsabilidad civil, con especial atención al problema de la incertidumbre causal. Si bien dicha incertidumbre no es exclusiva de las situaciones en las que el daño se deriva del funcionamiento de un sistema de inteligencia artificial, en esos casos supone una dificultad agravada para el demandante, quien, a falta de prueba del nexo causal, se ve privado de la indemnización solicitada. Además, el artículo examina las diversas soluciones doctrinales y jurisprudenciales propuestas para abordar el problema de la incertidumbre causal, al tiempo que evalúa críticamente las ventajas y deficiencias inhe-rentes a cada una de ellas.

Palabras clave:

Inteligencia artificial, Incertidumbre causal, Responsabilidad civil.

Abstract:

Artificial Intelligence constitutes a disruptive technology that has per-meated diverse domains, including education, engineering, medicine, and even agriculture. The law has not remained impervious to the advent of Ar-tificial Intelligence, which has generated a multiplicity of challenges across its various branches. Within the realm of civil law, one of the most pressing challenges concerns the civil liability, insofar as the distinctive features of this technology hinder the victim’s ability to establish the constitutive elements of liability, particularly fault and causation.

This article undertakes an examination of the concept and defining cha-racteristics of Artificial Intelligence, as well as the requirement of causation within the law of civil liability, with specific attention to the problem of causal uncertainty. Although such uncertainty is not exclusive to situations in which the damage arises from the operation of an artificial intelligence system, in those cases it poses an aggravated difficulty for the claimant, who, in the absence of proof of the causal nexus, is deprived of the compensation